iPhone SDK on PowerPC Macs

[MacRumors]

While Apple's formal requirements for the iPhone SDK is an Intel Mac running Mac OS 10.5.2 or later, one enterprising individual managed to get the environment working more or less on his PowerPC iBook.




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The only oddity I’ve encountered so far is that you get 1 Warning when you build, because the target architecture doesn’t match (PPC vs. i386) but that’s to be expected. Also I don’t know if the certificates that Apple hands out once you’ve paid your $99 fee will work perfectly with this system, so for now I’d simply use it as a development environment and plan to get an Intel box running with the SDK sometime between now and June’s AppStore launch. It should be noted that I’ve got Leopard running on the iBook. But, it works!

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[Kingsly]

Attesor?

[szark]

Well, I know what I'm doing tomorrow night.

[menthol moose]

Any chance of getting it working on Tiger, or is that just not possible?

[KindredMAC]

Am I the only one that finds this irritating?

How many perfectly good PowerMac G5's are there out here that are more powerful than most of the Intel Macs currently or EVER available?

Don't be starting this crap Apple. It's bad enough that some software developers aren't using Universal Binary and going straight for the X86 version....

[DJSdotcom]

Thanks for the linkage guys!! It's very cool to see it linked from MacRumors... I found out from my RSS reader

-Mike (that enterprising individual)

[Rocksaurus]

Originally Posted by KindredMAC

Am I the only one that finds this irritating?

No.

[Rocketman]

Originally Posted by KindredMAC

Am I the only one that finds this irritating?

How many perfectly good PowerMac G5's are there out here that are more powerful than most of the Intel Macs currently or EVER available?

Don't be starting this crap Apple. It's bad enough that some software developers aren't using Universal Binary and going straight for the X86 version....

You know which users are happiest with their Macs? The ones who set up a CPU and OS version for a set of software and just leave it running for YEARS.

When a new Mac that comes out that you think you need, ADD it, not REPLACE with it.

Apple abandons enough compatibility and hardware and stuff to use this paradigm forever.

The only risk is finding yourself looking for a low graphics resolution G4 to run Mac Draw 1.9 on.

You need two Macs on your desk. If it gets to three, reevaluate your sanity and attachment to old software.

Rocketman

[idonotliketostu]

Originally Posted by KindredMAC

How many perfectly good PowerMac G5's are there out here that are more powerful than most of the Intel Macs currently or EVER available?

kidding right?
don't tell me that you think the g5 can beat a c2d